AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Ryzen 9 5900HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HS is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600XT has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. The Ryzen 9 5900HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.